Tobacco

Among adults with type 1 diabetes, current tobacco users have worse diabetes-related outcomes vs. past users and those who have quit, according to study results published in Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications.

Published results showed no association between morbid obesity and an increased risk in adverse outcomes after aseptic revision total knee arthroplasty, but an association between tobacco use and severe complications.

President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intention to nominate cardiologist Robert Califf, MD, MACC, to lead the FDA for a second time.

A new study in Chest highlights a decrease in the global burden of asthma from 1990 to 2019, but prevalence of asthma continues to increase in regions with lower socioeconomic development.

Using a combination of nicotine replacement therapy and varenicline may be more effective as first-line therapy for smoking cessation than varenicline alone, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

The FDA announced it has authorized marketing of three new tobacco products — the first set of electronic nicotine delivery system products ever to be authorized by the FDA via the Premarket Tobacco Product Application pathway.

Matthew A. Steliga, MD, discusses a presentation from World Conference on Lung Cancer which focused on the importance of integrating tobacco cessation strategies into lung cancer practice in a video interview with Healio

Smoking is highly likely to increase COVID-19 severity and associated risk for mortality, researchers reported in Thorax,.

The American Thoracic Society Tobacco Action Committee released a new policy with recommendations created to reduce tobacco use, and increase research, treatment and tobacco treatment program implementation.

More than one-fourth of adults with CVD use tobacco products and few of them quit over 5 years, researchers reported.